Electronic Albums That Deserve 10/10 Praise, Worship

Their attempt at jungle in the middle does nothing for me, but the rest of it is so good I'll go along with the 10 rating. Himawari is almost perfect too. Too bad the newest one sucked rocks.

My favorite album of 2003. Everyone everyone download it and then buy it because Merck needs your money. It actually is good...much more than just the palatable BoC wankage that is permeating the idm scene these days.

I don't understand the fascination with Around The House... its one of the most boringly middlebrow records I've heard to garner so much blanket critical jizzing.

My nominations would Agoria - Blossom and MRI's All That Glitters.

New Order - PC&L
The Black Dog - Spanners
YMO - Solid State Survivor
Pet Shop Boys - Very
Kenny Larkin - Azimuth
Deee-Lite - Dewdrops In The Garden
Depth Charge - Nine Deadly Venoms
Plaid - Double Figure
Opus III - Mind Fruit
LSG - Into The Deep

not sure that they're all perfect 10s, but they all made quite an impression on me somewhere along the way and have stuck in my collection as favorites.

perhaps it's time to pay 'Electribal Memories' in full (but i've never heard it in full!)? and Inner City's 'Paradise'? and maybe even S Express 'Original Soundtrack'??

Karlheinz Stockhausen - Hymnen (Deutsche Grammophon 139 421122)

herbert - around the house ... you were saying about middlebrow, strongo?

v/a - relics ... derrick may's 30-second edits of tracks are astoundingly pretentious. that's not a "relic", that's an annoying fragment of a track that fucks up the flow of your album, dummy.

swayzak - both albums ... how the same people who like these guys can snicker at doc martin and hipp-e + halo is beyond me. it's like repping dope dragon instead of true playaz. at least proper san francisco trippy deep house artists have the good sense to drop references to drugs and fucking instead of modernist design

coldcut - let us play
fsol - anything

these inclusions are sort of mind-blowing, honestly. fsol has never ever ever done anything that wasn't simultaneously being done 100x better by their contemporaries. compare "papau new guinea" to "pacific state", "lifeforms" vs skylab's #1 or saw ii or irresistible force or atom heart's BASS or silver sound 60 or whatever, "dead cities" vs no-u-turn's output of the period. i don't even know how to address coldcut.

2LS - bag of blue sparks, tiny reminders
plaid - double figure
mu-ziq - royal astronomy

well, i guess it's touching that somebody cares, because these albums are the sounds of these artists painting themselves into corners from which they will never emerge.

ellen allien - weiss mix, berlinette ... if anybody cares about her in three years i'll eat my trucker hat.

Oops, invasion of da hippies

daft punk - discovery
fila brazilia - maim that tune
aphex twin - saw 85-92
basement jaxx - remedy
boards of canada - music has the right...
prodigy - experience
kraftwerk - computer world
oval - diskont94
new order - pc&l

and i would add these to my list

jeff mills - live at the liquid room
urban tribe - collapse of modern culture
reflection - the errornormous world
mr fingers - amnesia
suicide - 1st album

and i wish i could add these but they're honestly not 10/10, just more favorites

two lone swordsmen - the fifth mission

2nd half of 1st disc lets down the insane quality of the rest of it

psyche/bfc - elements 1989-1990
paperclip people - 4mypeepz ep
69 - sound of music

ok the fact that i can't pick which one makes the list makes me think maybe carl craig doesn't make the list. i had a similar problem with choosing between various artists and maurizio and porter ricks for a token berlin dub cd.

i also had similar problems with morgan geist, ken ishii though these i think are more cases where they are fascinating artists that keep drawing me back to their work - they might be among my all-time favorites but i don't think they really have an album that's 10/10 ... maybe a long run of 9/10 and 8/10 albums and a couple songs on each one that are like 20/10.

lil louis & the world - from the mind of...
kc flightt - in flightt
808 state - newbuild
jacob's optical stairway - s/t

and i can't include these because they're really compilations

2 bad mice - kaotic chemistry
moodymann - take your pick
bobby konders - a lost era...

scratch that depth charge then, cos it's just a singles comp, really

also, do dj mixes count here? cos NE and NE2 are probably my most played "electronic" albums ever.

ne & ne2 = Sasha & Digweed - Northern Exposure (Vols 1 & 2)

Water Melon - Field Trip* (Toshio Nakanishsi of Major Force/Skylab/Tyccon Tosh and the Terminator Troops and Kevin Hale)
Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash
Coldcut - What's That Noise?*
Skylab - #2*
Muki - Cabin Fever*
Baby Ford - "Ooo" The World Of Baby Ford
Cornelius - Fantasma, CM and Point
Mekon - Welcome To Tackletown
The Dust Brothers - Fight Club
Luke Vibert - Big Soup*

I'd like Melodic Records to produce a classic record someday - Pedro, Minotaur Shock, Empire State et al have their moments but not accross an entire record yet, maybe that Pedro one might qualify with time.

Daniel Wang -Idealism 2005

^^^this is so true

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